Improvement in methods of producing metallic pictures



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK TUCHFARBER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN METHODS OF PRODUCING METALLIC PICTURES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 203,568, dated May 14, 1878, application filed March 25, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK TUGHFARBER, of the city of Cincinnati, county of Hamilton, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture and Art of Making Metallic Oil-Pictures, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to pictures mounted on or carried by a metal backing or plate, and consists in a mode, fully described hereinafter, of treating the plate after the picture is applied, to produce an ornamental setting to the picture and a better effect.

In carrying out my invention, the picture is first printed on transfer-paper in oil-colors by the usual lithographic process. Then it is transferred to a metallic plate covered with flexible enamel. When the picture has had time to set and before the transfer-paper is removed from the said enameled plate, the plate is placed between two dies and struck up in an oval, circular, or other desired shape,

the picture being either on the ooncavityof the plate or its convexity; and, when preferred, the plate may be so struck up that portions of the picture are upon raised or convexed portions of the base and portions of the picture upon concaved portions'thereof. This creates a fine imitation of porcelain or ivory painting, and produces withal a fine effect.

By embossing the metal while the picturesheet is thereon, all danger of injury to the picture by action of the dies is avoided.

I claim-- The improvement in mounting transfer-pictures, consisting in applying the sheet carrying the picture to a coated sheet of metal, and subj ectin gthe latter, while the sheet is thereon, to pressure between dies, as set forth.

FRANK TUGHFARBRR.

Attest:

W. S. CHRISTOPHER, WM. GEO. ROBERTS. 

